I really like this poem.

Dec 01, 2008 20:38

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost

robert frost, fire and ice

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Nice poem :) aryador December 2 2008, 08:11:09 UTC
I see your Robert Frost and I raise you a Sylvia Plath:

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.

O I cannot explain what happened to them!
They are proper in shape and number and every part.
They sit so nicely in the pickling fluid!
They smile and smile and smile at me.
And still the lungs won't fill and the heart won't start.

They are not pigs, they are not even fish,
Though they have a piggy and a fishy air --
It would be better if they were alive, and that's what they were.
But they are dead, and their mother near dead with distraction,
And they stupidly stare and do not speak of her.

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Re: Nice poem :) kayfig December 2 2008, 16:13:05 UTC
Oh personification!

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Re: Nice poem :) kyrie313 December 2 2008, 22:08:40 UTC
Nice wager, I'll see that and raise you E. E. Cummings

The boys I mean are not refined
They go with girls who buck and bite
They do not give a fuck for luck
They hump them thirteen times a night

One hangs a hat upon her tit
One carves a cross on her behind
They do not give a shit for wit
The boys I mean are not refined

They come with girls who bite and buck
Who cannot read and cannot write
Who laugh like they would fall apart
And masturbate with dynamite

The boys I mean are not refined
They cannot chat of that and this
They do not give a fart for art
They kill like you would take a piss

They speak whatever is on their mind
They do whatever is in their pants
The boys I mean are not refined
They shake the mountains when they dance

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